FW: Orocos dev-environments & targets

I used Unix in school (ten years ago). And recently, I've been using the
Quantum Framework to manage concurrency. It is a free Active Objects
framework. Very cool.

However, I agree that ramping up on Linux/gcc may be too big of a first
bite.

I think a better first step might be to try to integrate a simple,
single threaded, stripped down version of the control kernel into a
Win32 project I'm working on now. If the framework is truly as loosely
coupled as advertised, then this shouldn't be overwhelming. We'll see
how it goes.

Matt



-----Original Message-----
From: Herman Bruyninckx [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2004 10:53 AM
To: Matt Wheeler
Subject: RE: [Orocos] Orocos dev-environments & targets

On Sat, 27 Nov 2004, Matt Wheeler wrote:

[...]
> Can you recommend a minimum hardware/software setup I will need?

A normal PC will do. Much depends on the hardware interfacing you need
to
the devices you want to control.

> I guess the first question is, can I build and run everything in
Cygwin
> or do I need to have a dedicated Linux box running Redhat? I'd like to
> dev under Cygwin and target a PC104 embedded Linux target.
That should work. The PC104 part at least, because we have done that
already. I don't know about Cygwin, but since that contains the GNU gcc
compiler, things should be allright.

> What about books or web sites to help me learn what I need to know?
> Is "Building Embedded Linux Systems" a good book? What about "Embedded
> Software Development With Ecos"?

Both are fine books, but the latter is not needed unless you want to
port
Orocos to Ecos. We would welcome that _very_ much :-)
If you master the former book, you will have few problems with Orocos
:-)

Anyway, a word of caution: you seem to have close to no experience with
either gcc, Linux or RTOS, so the road ahead will be _very_ difficult.

Good luck!

Herman

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